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  "schema_version": "1.1",
  "id": "sitemap-limit-50000-urls-50mb",
  "slug": "sitemap-limit-50000-urls-50mb",
  "url": "https://groundedkit.com/claims/sitemap-limit-50000-urls-50mb/",
  "api_url": "https://groundedkit.com/api/claims/sitemap-limit-50000-urls-50mb.json",
  "claim": "A single XML sitemap is limited to 50,000 URLs or 50MB uncompressed",
  "commonly_cited_as": "\"How many URLs can a sitemap have?\"",
  "verdict": "verified",
  "verdict_definition": "Primary source found; it says the same thing, the scope matches, and it is reasonably current.",
  "confidence": "high",
  "rating": {
    "value": 5,
    "best": 5,
    "worst": 1
  },
  "origin": {
    "publisher": "Google Search Central",
    "title": "Build and submit a sitemap",
    "year": "Current documentation"
  },
  "quote": "All formats limit a single sitemap to 50MB (uncompressed) or 50,000 URLs. If you have a larger file or more URLs, you must break your sitemap into multiple sitemaps.",
  "method": "Official Google documentation (current version read Oct. 17, 2026).",
  "drift": [
    "Larger sites use multiple sitemaps or a sitemap index file"
  ],
  "interest": "Google operates Google Search and documents its own systems.",
  "safe_rephrasing": "Google says each sitemap file can hold at most 50,000 URLs or 50MB uncompressed; bigger sites must split it into several sitemaps.",
  "sources": [
    {
      "title": "Google Search Central — Build and submit a sitemap",
      "url": "https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/sitemaps/build-sitemap",
      "primary": true
    }
  ],
  "kind": "reference_fact",
  "as_of": "Documentation read on 2026-10-17",
  "last_checked": "2026-10-17",
  "stale": false,
  "date_reviewed": "2026-10-17",
  "license": "CC BY 4.0",
  "license_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
}